Plague Doctor

Where is this...

Zhou Hao Rui looked around in obscurity. His eyes were a desolate place in the dark, endless.

Didn't I sleep in the dorm... I played games with Wei Ziyang and Wang Jia at more than 11 o'clock, didn't win a hand, because the next day was Friday and there were classes, everyone was washing and sleeping in a depressed mood... because they were tired and fell asleep quickly... is this a dream...

Darkness, besides darkness, is silence, dead silence.

Zhou Hao Rui suddenly felt cold and saw the low tombstone standing in darkness.

Is this a tomb... but above the head, there seems to be a ray of moonlight that has not yet completely extinguished, but it does not illuminate this turbulent environment...

The heavens and the earth seem to have turned into a huge tomb, with moldy fog.

Zhou Hao Rui wanted to move, but felt overwhelmed. His limbs were like sticking to some thick substance, difficult to pull.

How did this happen, where is this... what's going on...

“Anybody...” Zhou Hao Rui's mind was getting heavier and heavier, gradually generating an unknown fear. His heart contracted and his pores contracted. The cold, humidity and darkness around him were penetrating into his body and mind, becoming a piece of weight pressing him...

Zhou Hao Rui struggled and kept struggling. It was just that his feet seemed to be stuck in the dirt. He couldn't move. The more he moved, the more he felt an unusual pain.

This pain... he suddenly remembered, it was the pain in the cervical spine...

But now, the pain is eroding your feet and spreading all over your body.

Like, the whole body turned into a rock.

Together, Zhou Hao Rui's perception became clearer, his heart felt worse, and suddenly, he “saw” himself.

In that position he stood, not alone, but a tombstone.

A tombstone made of broken stone with his name engraved on it: Zhou Hao Rui.

“Ah..." Zhou Hao Rui shouted in his struggle. His gaze rose out of his control and went away. He saw more tombstones, everywhere, dense and numb, stretching for thousands of miles, all dark and desolate land... a tombstone, a stone, all made of human bones...

All of a sudden, he finally felt the whole person rise up and really scream: "Ah! ”

What he saw was an upper-bed bed, surrounded by a bright bedroom, and he slept on his own bottom bed, rising from a nightmare with a cold sweat.

Was that... a ghost bed...

“What's your name? Shut up...” The royal family on the other side of the bed turned around and squeezed over to the wall, muttering dissatisfied: “Shut up...”

But soon, less than a minute later, the royal family had gone back to sleep and heard a slight snoring.

The phone was displayed at more than 2: 00 a.m. Zhou Hao Rui sat still in bed gasping. He didn't want to go back to that strange and horrible dream, but the desolation in the dream was especially in front of him, making the darkness around him obnoxious.

He wiped his face and tried to turn on the lights, but that would disturb the sleep of the other three and he would definitely be scolded to death.

Suddenly, the back neck stings, making him almost scream loudly, hissing and holding on to the air, the pain seems to be serious...

His right hand had to reach back and touch it, but he lifted his hand so he could see that his right shoulder was also a little sore and stiff, like the symptoms of the beginning of the cervical spine.

“No way...”

The unprecedented resentment grew stronger, as did the unrelenting anxiety.

Zhou Hao Rui frowned tightly and lifted his left hand to touch his right shoulder. Suddenly he found that his left shoulder also had pain and stiffness...

Progressive musculoskeletosis, Fibrodysplasiaossificansprogressiva

Cold sweat fell off his forehead, and some of the FOP data he had looked at came crashing up.

There are currently no cures for FOP, not even approved treatments.

It's a genetic disorder, not even the mechanism is very clear. Normal bone hyperplasia or muscle fibrosis can be treated surgically, but for a condition such as FOP, where post-traumatic repair of muscles, tendons, etc. can result in osteoporosis, surgery can lead to explosive growth of new bones...

So there is currently only one way to treat FOP, which is to avoid injury as much as possible. Do not fall, do not do anything that could lead to soft tissue damage, as even minor trauma can cause ectopic bone formation.

The life of a FOP patient is an unusual process of consumption, which should be slowed down and prolonged as much as possible.

Live like a statue with an average life expectancy of 40 years, or turn into a statue at 20.

Yesterday afternoon at the hospital, he did acupuncture... acupuncture will injure soft tissue, his neck and shoulders have been acupunctured...

He also made a traction to relax his neck by pulling soft tissue, but that could also cause soft tissue injuries...

But even if it's really ossified, how can it be so fast...

Zhou Hao Rui slowly moved his neck and shoulders, but felt caught, stuck, his neck didn't move very much, and there was a shoulder there, as if... there seemed to be an extra bulge. ectopic bone...? It's swollen, it's just swollen...

Zhou Hao Rui walked out of bed, his legs were a little numb. He walked over to Wei Ziyang and bought a fitting mirror. He took off his shirt and looked at the back shoulder side by side through the dim light... What did he see, his body became tight and his heart sank to the ice spot...

There was an extra bulge in the muscles of the posterior shoulders on both sides, crossed there, like a latch on the shoulder bone.

His slightly trembling hand pressed it again, hard as a bone.

“It's a dream, you're still dreaming...” Zhou Hao Ruiran, impossible, it can't really be progressive musculoskeletosis...

Like Dr. Shaw said, it's a genetic disorder. It usually happens before the age of 10. How can you suddenly get yourself sick...

His heart ached and his head flashed again. Zhou Hao Rui almost fell to the ground. I don't know why, he seemed to have a hunch, said it was impossible, but he knew it was like this. He just doesn't understand why it's him and why it's happening...

He wondered how he could improve his “gift qualifications” so he could enter the University of Astronomy and join the Astronomy Bureau...

It's all gone.

Suddenly, a chill swept past him, forcing Zhou Hao Rui to tremble, but he found that the window that had been closed a few steps away had somehow been pushed out. The cold night wind poured in from the outside, and the faint moonlight did not make the room brighter, but he could see that there was a dark shadow along the window.

It was a dark crow with a long mouth and a pair of birds with spectacular eyes.

Zhou Hao Rui looked at it blindly, and it seemed to be something unknown and invisible, completely unexplainable.

“You're sick.” The crow told Zhou Hao Rui that he heard clearly, "Petrochemical disease. ”